Elder (Frank) The Book of the Hackle

Elder (Frank) The Book of the Hackle,number 79 of 85 copies, colour frontispiece and plates by Ellen Chapman, 28 hackle feathers only (of 29, lacking 1 hackle, another detached) on 5 card inserts, each feather with gold caption, original morocco, gilt, g.e., slip-case, by A.W. Lumsden, 8vo, Edinburgh, Scottish Academic Press, 1979.

***Deluxe edition of this study of hackles from cockerels used in the creation of dry-flies. Elder died in 1977, the book being seen though the press by his son..